Pondering Career Choices
Like any young person in their 20's, I'm starting to rethink my life.
Where do we even begin?
Let's start with my career. I'm about a year and a half into my job as an auditor and I'm starting to look elsewhere. I've known this for a while but I chose a job as an accountant because it's stable and decently well paying. I chose it for the money.
By no means is my job bad either. It's very flexible, has high growth potential, set promotions, above average raises, and I work with all sorts of people. However, two things kill me the most:
- Working Busy Season
- Work that doesn't provide much value
The first will give any accountant the chills. Busy season is February through April where accountants work lots of hours due to most organizations and business having a 12/31 fiscal year end. It's the nature of working for an accounting firm.
The second reason I believe is the key reason I'm going to leave. Our job is to make sure organization's financial statements are accurate and to prevent and catch fraud. This is important work that does need to be done. But there is no personal connections or touch to this work. You're not helping individuals like healthcare or doing good in the world. Your personal impact isn't large.
My current goal is to work at my firm until I get promoted to senior next year then start looking for a job that is more relaxed and allows me to spend more time exploring options of what I really want to do. Or just quit altogether and go searching.
I've thought this idea that I want to quit and travel the world was a quarter life crisis. However, now that I come to think about it, it's just being human. I thought I was so old at 24 that I need to find a wife, make sure I have all my ducks in a line, and grind my earnings up. Now, I've taken a bit of a backseat and realize that it's my time to really explore and make some change.
tldr: i don't find career 100% perfect, let's find / make one that's a better fit.